Tag: food insecurity

Geneva : UN officials and agencies on Tuesday spoke of exceptional levels of drought in Afghanistan affecting millions of people in the country. With 3.6 million living with chronic food insecurity, Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative for the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said it's the "worst drought in a lifetime," noting "it's one step away from famine", Xinhua news agency reported. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said at a later briefing that a series of airlifts have begun to western Afghanistan, bringing thousands of tents for people displaced by a...